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Saturnian Atmosphere: the "Cat's Eye"
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Original caption:"During its time in orbit Cassini has already spotted many beautiful "Cat's Eye-shaped" patterns like the ones visible here. These patterns occur in places where the winds and the atmospheric density at one latitude are different from those at another latitude.
The opposing East-West flowing cloud bands are the dominant patterns seen here and elsewhere in Saturn's atmosphere. Contrast in the image was enhanced to aid the visibility of atmospheric features.
The image was taken with the Cassini spacecraft wide-angle camera on Aug. 20, 2005, at a distance of approx. 420.000 Km (about 261.000 miles) from Saturn using a filter sensitive to wavelengths of infrared light centered at 728 nnmts. The image scale is 22 Km (about 13 miles) per pixel".
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